Lac led him toward the center of a ramshackle town, and Lenaris got a clearer picture of where the farmer lived.

It is a ramshackle town far enough away from the capital to have a neglected provincial feel.

At dawn Beersheba was a dusty, ramshackle, pioneer town out of the American Old West.

Food is getting low in this ramshackle town where every building is filled with refugees.

Upon arriving, they discover that the city, which became landlocked after the Cataclysm, has turned from a thriving port into a ramshackle town.

Most of the company's taxes and royalties had stayed in the capital, he said, leaving the ramshackle town bereft of the benefits of gold mining.

Even San Francisco or New Orleans, but not these ramshackle towns on the edge of nowhere at all.

You can see it in the ramshackle towns, the broken trucks, abandoned buildings.

The area around the beacon was starting to look like a ramshackle town, Gail thought, a miniature version of Mira City's initial mess.

Kynan caught the scent of the Portuguese settlement before he came within sight of the ramshackle little town: wood smoke, hogs, refuse.